Bodega Marine Lab

The Bodega Marine Lab is a remote field station/research facility that has fallen under the purview of the University of California Davis since 1984.

[1][2] Initially built and established in 1966 under the supervision of UC Berkeley,[3] the marine lab has since doubled in size.

In the early 2000s, the Aquatic Resources Group at the Bodega Marine Lab documented a population of Olympia oyster while conducting an environmental impact assessment at the San Francisco Airport.

Since then, ARG has developed practices to both support wild populations of Olympia oyster, and rear them in aquaculture.

[6] BML's Aquatic Resources Group has been developing techniques for "urchin ranching", a practice wherein purple urchins are collected from the wild and kept in aquaculture enclosures, a "ranch", to rear them with ample food resources with the goal of cultivating uni that can be sold in markets.